Broken By Love [COMPLETED]

Epilogue

Sikha

Three Months Later

"It seemed too easy, Nisha. I can't help but feel something is off."

After the hearing got over, Nisha and I came to this restaurant tonight to celebrate our victory against Dhruv Rathore and his family, but I am unable to feel the joy of the win.

During the investigation of Anjana and Ridvansh's crimes, it was found that Ridvansh also murdered Niranjan Shah on Anjana's orders.

The count of murders they committed were found to be thirty, including Anjali and Niranjan.

Ridvansh even confessed to sexually assaulting all those girls before he and Anjana tortured them more and finally killed them.

Due to such heinous crimes that they committed, Anjana and Ridvansh have gotten lifetime imprisonment for torturing and murdering all those girls.

Dhruv Rathore has gotten fifteen years sentence for Vivansh's murder, and his family has gotten five years sentence on charge of domestic violence.

I wanted Dhruv to have lifetime imprisonment for what he did to me, and I even asked my lawyer if we can press the charges of rape on him, but she told me that since the assault was done after the marriage, we cannot make that charge stick because there is no law against marital rape in our country.

I was shocked and disappointed after learning that.

How come a woman's consent does not matter? Even if it is with a man she married?

Isn't she supposed to feel safe at her own home?

When I posed such questions to my lawyer, she said she knows it is wrong, but there is nothing we can do about it as there really is no law about it.

So, I gulped the disappointment and drew some satisfaction about Dhruv being sentenced for the fifteen years.

That is nowhere enough punishment for what he did to me, but I had decided to go by law in punishing him, so I made myself be satisfied with what I got.

But that was until he walked closer to me while I was leaving the courtroom.

Although he was cuffed and was being held by two police constables, the hard, angry look on his face made me slightly tremble.

I could see the rage in his face as he sneered at me. "This is not over, Sikha. This is not over."

Saying that, he turned to his side to subtly nod to his lawyer who nodded back at him.

That was the moment when uneasiness settled in the pit of my stomach, and since then I have not been able to shake off my restlessness.

"You are overthinking, Sikha." Nisha's voice snaps me out of my thoughts.

"Dhruv and his family have gotten what they deserve. Celebrate your victory against them and don't think too much about it," she tells me, and I want to do just that, but still there is a niggling restlessness that I can feel deep within me.

"But that nod-" I begin to say when Nisha interrupts me.

"Are you even sure that was what you say?" She asks me, and continues without waiting for my reply. "Even if that really was what you saw, Dhruv has been sentenced for fifteen years, Sikha. What can he possibly do when he is inside prison?"

I process what Nisha said, and give her a slight reluctant nod.

"So, when do you have the doctor's appointment?" Nisha suddenly asks, and I narrow my eyes at her.